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Good morning seavixen32, It did not do the POST test, so I did the paper clip test and it showed that the power supply failed. I hope that is the problem. I sent it to Crucial for replacement. I will let you and DavidW7ncus, DustSailor and Erikbe know the results. Thank you all for your replies. stubs2.

To seavixen32, You nailed it, it was a faulty power supply which was about 2.5 yrs. old. Crucial replaced it in a very timely fashion, no charge. Thanks again to all those that posted. Windows 7 is such a valuable resource to those of us that are not that computer savvy.

Computer shuts off completely about 10 secs. after turn on.

computer shuts off completely while surfing internetI just want to say THANK YOU for all the help I have been given on this forum. I have had several BSOD issues and I come here and you give me great advice.
I have another one. My computer just shuts off while surfing the internet and I can't seem to find a link. I have microsoft for my virus...

General Discussion

Computer display shuts off/computer shuts down. During video tasks.Whenever I play a movie or a game, after about 20 mins or so the display stops working. On some occasions the computer will just shut off. I have ran a AIDA64 benchmark test on my machine with all hardware devices and the system performs well. (Test ran for 5 hours +) I also checked my cpu...

Hardware & Devices

Computer completely shuts down playing any game, no BSODI have a custom built computer that i finished almost a year ago then bout 3 months ago, it start shutting down completely while I was playing The Old Republic no Blue Screens. I thought at first since it was just shutting down and not BSODing it was either my GPU or PSU, I have now replaced both...

BSOD Help and Support

BSOD Computer shuts downs at turn on againHi,
First time posting
My recently build PC (2months old) is having this problem in which i leave it w/ out any anything open and it shutdowns and turns back on w/ BSOD message :
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
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BSOD Help and Support

PC Shuts Down Completely During SleepAbout a year ago I build a home brew dektop PC. I am running Windows 7 Professional, I7 processor, Asus P6T Deluxe Ver. 2 motherboard, 6gb ram.
Occasionally, in the past when the the PC would sleep it would not wake up when I pressed the keyboard and had to be restarted instead. Over the last...